Main entry: liven, liven up, invigorate, animate, enliven
Definition: make lively
Usage: let's liven up this room a bit
Definition: make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
Main entry: animate
Definition: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life
Usage: we are animate beings
Antonyms: inanimate, non-living, nonliving
Definition: not endowed with life
Main entry: animate
Definition: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings
Usage: the word `dog' is animate
Antonyms: inanimate
Definition: belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things
Main entry: animate, sentient
Definition: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
Usage: the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage- T.E.Lawrence
Antonyms: insensate, insentient
Definition: devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation